Reversing Climate Change

The palm nutcracker that became a carbon dioxide removal company—w/ Uzoma Ayogu of Biochar Industrial Group

What do you do when none of the machinery you imported works? If you're Releaf, you build your own nutcracker, name it Kraken, and get it working with about six weeks of

Which story is carbon dioxide removal actually in?—w/ Rudy Krehbiel of EcoEngineers

Every industry runs on a mythology, and carbon dioxide removal has several of them available at once. There is the hype cycle, where the trough of disillusionment is a ph

Thinking Little with Mary Berry, Executive Director of The Berry Center—RERELEASE

Wendell Berry died on August 31st, 2026. A listener once made a Reversing Climate Change bingo card and one of the squares was just "someone mentions Wendell Berry," whic

Removals, avoidances, and what Wendell Berry thought of making tonnes fungible

Rainbow came into carbon dioxide removal from the outside, kept financing avoidances the whole time, and has watched the market arrive at the position it started from. Th

The scariest current parallel from Hitler's Mein Kampf

CW: this episode discusses genocide People reference the Weimar Republic's transition to Nazi Germany often. But I think they're missing perhaps the most relevant and fr

The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way—Hitler, Chaplin, & The Great Dictator on climate

CW: this episode discusses genocide and suicide. I swear I didn't mean to make this episode. All I intended to do was to read ⁠the wonderfully moving speech at the end o

J. Maarten Troost on Kiribati's atolls, climate change, and what travel writing is for RERELEASE

This podcast has been running for almost a decade. There are some real gems buried in the catalogue that I am happy to have a chance to rerelease. This is one of those ep

Why I love Poppy Russell of Counteract VC's CDR analysis

There are some people whom you know you just have to read whatever they write next. For me, one of those people is Poppy Russell. Poppy is the Research Manager at Counter

remove's new Latin American carbon dioxide removal accelerator program—w/ Hans Westerhof & Marian Krüger

There are many startup accelerators out there. There are fewer focused on climate tech. Fewer still for carbon dioxide removal. Lucky for us, remove runs the absolute hec

D.W. Pasulka on AI, the religion of UFOs, & the future of being human

When I have questions about how technology will change human life, our experience of it, and fundamentally what we are as conscious entities... my first port of call is l

I tried to sort carbon credits into boxes and failed

If we created an objectively correct and exhaustive categorization of carbon credits, would it solve everything? Would it solve anything? Listen in as I read an essay I

Charles C. Mann on the wizards & prophets of climate change

I interviewed Charles C. Mann in 2020 about his book, The Wizard and the Prophet: Two Remarkable Scientists and Their Dueling Visions to Shape Tomorrow's World. This epis

Climate Workers Anonymous, introducing a new podcast + collective art project I am curating

Working in climate is hard. We all have things we wish we could say. What if we could actually say them? If you love the Reversing Climate Change podcast, you should che

Hyperstition, Dialectic, & Carbon Dioxide Removal

What happens when you care about climate and also want to explore space? What if you love technology but worry we've deeply misunderstood how to relate to it appropriatel

Does Managed MRV imply the existence of Unmanaged MRV?!—w/ Varsha Ramesh Walsh, Offstream

What even is MRV, let alone dMRV?! Or Managed MRV?! Doesn't that imply the existence of Unmanaged MRV? If everything is pretty much digital now, do we still need that pes

And was Jerusalem builded here, Among these dark Satanic Mills?—"Jerusalem" by William Blake

In the last Reversing Climate Change podcast episode, Tom Mills and I started talking about "Jerusalem ["And did those feet in ancient time"]" by William Blake (1810), an

When will insetting work for carbon dioxide removal?—w/ Tom Mills, Stripe Climate Fellow (former)

Everyone knows about offsetting. But what about insetting? Surely, that's easier. If only we could define it... In this episode of Reversing Climate Change, host Ross Ke

How to get max value from carbon market consultants—w/ David LaGreca, EcoEngineers

How do you actually work with a consultant without lighting money on fire? That's the question I've been wanting to tackle for a while, because I've seen both sides of th

Reform vs. Revolution from Microsoft to the Salvage Yard—w/ Drew Wilkinson, Climate Leadership Collective

What do you do when you spent 20 years fighting climate change from every angle you could find: community organizing, Sea Shepherd, AmeriCorps, corporate sustainability a

Emotional startup lessons from Nori cofounders—w/ Alexsandra Guerra of Calming Chaos

What happens when you ask a startup founder how a decision made them feel and their eyes start to water? What happens when you realize the person who drove you the crazie